The blue is a coincidence because I took the picture later in the day and it turned out blue ... it is really white!It's in an old thrown-away booklet I once found "Learn to write Russian for beginners", I thought it was a good background ;))

Oh my! Great image and great topic of conversation on the radio program I was listening to last night. Did you know that folks under 40 have a problem reading cursive? There are many articles about it out there. Just GOOGLE and weep. An interesting fact: At least 41 states in the USA do not require public schools to teach cursive reading or writing.